SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say they have stopped looking for survivors hours after a small plane carrying seven people crashed into a Tennessee lake. Rutherford County Fire Rescue Capt. Joshua Sanders said late Saturday that crews had “transitioned from…
(AP) -- One of the country’s most popular and versatile singers, B.J. Thomas, has died. He was 78. Thomas was a Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with such hits as “I Just Can’t…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television actor Gavin MacLeod has died. He was 90. His stepdaughter says MacLeod died early Saturday at his home in Palm Desert, California. She attributed his death to his age, saying he had been well until…
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a small plane carrying seven people has crashed into a Tennessee lake. Authorities say at least one person has been killed. The Federal Aviation Administration says a Cessna C501 jet crashed into Percy Priest…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - William Lee Golden of The Oak Ridge Boys says writing an autobiography is like getting naked in front of the whole world. He says he kept thinking, “If I was going to get naked in front…
HANOI — Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said. Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Saturday that scientists identified the variant while examining…
(CBS Newspath)--Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and cases are increasing, according to the American Cancer Society. With beach season here, experts want to remind…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities searching the home of Samuel Cassidy say the man who gunned down nine co-workers at a California rail yard had stockpiled an arsenal that included a dozen guns, Molotov cocktails and 25,000 rounds of ammunition.…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Samuel E. Wright, the actor and singer who famously voiced “Sebastian the Crab” in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” has died. His family says Wright died Monday in New York after a three-year bout with prostate cancer.…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California district attorney won't seek a new death sentence against Scott Peterson, convicted in 2005 of murdering his pregnant wife Laci. In a filing Friday, the Stanislaus County district attorney's office said it would drop…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Actor Bill Cosby has been denied parole after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison in Pennsylvania. The 83-year-old Cosby has long said he would serve the full 10-year…
SAMSON, Ala. (AP) — A Tennessee teen missing since her father allegedly abducted her in 2019 has been located in Alabama. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says 18-year-old Daphne Westbrook was found safe in the town of Samson. A search…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class. But Biden's generosity depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it believes U.S. government agencies largely fended off the latest cyberespionage onslaught blamed on Russia intelligence operatives, saying the spear-phishing campaign should not further damage relations with Moscow ahead of next month’s planned…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to consider a House-passed bill that would have formed…
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A police report says a Tennessee woman has been charged with reckless endangerment for driving through a COVID-19 vaccine distribution tent as a form of protest. …
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former assistant district attorney in Tennessee has pleaded guilty to soliciting a sexual bribe in exchange for expunging a woman’s criminal charges. The eastern district U.S. Attorney's Office says William E. McManus Jr. entered his…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Four environmental organizations are asking the Tennessee Valley Authority’s internal watchdog to investigate whether the nation’s largest public utility misused ratepayer money to lobby against federal environmental regulations. The request comes after the activist group Energy…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A sheriff's spokesman says there are multiple fatalities and injuries in a shooting at a San Jose, California, railyard and that the suspect is dead. An assailant opened fire at a California railyard serving Silicon…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee transportation officials say the first step toward repairing a crack in a steel beam in the Interstate 40 bridge linking Tennessee and Arkansas has been completed. Engineers have installed steel plates on each side of…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A family-friendly street festival, musical performances and a moment of silence were held Tuesday to honor George Floyd and mark the year since…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is the latest state to ban teachers from talking about certain aspects of race and racism in public schools. Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill into law Monday after it generated impassioned debates inside…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials say almost all construction-related highway lane closures will be paused for Memorial Day weekend. According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the lane closures will be on pause for interstates and state routes from…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s top prosecutor says he will not enforce a newly enacted law that requires businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms and other…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A police officer in Memphis, Tennessee, has died after his motorcycle was involved in an on-duty accident. The department says 47-year-old officer Scotty Triplett died at a hospital Saturday. The department says Triplett was part of…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says a woman was killed and a man was injured when a house boat exploded on a river. The agency says the explosion happened shortly after the 38-foot vessel refueled near…
THACKERVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Federal officials have removed the last of the 68 big cats from the private zoo in Oklahoma that had been the center of the “Tiger King” saga. The Oklahoman reports a jaguar was among the last…
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic has made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, as the company forges toward offering tourist flights to the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People along rivers in seven states may see a low-flying helicopter towing a long cylinder, starting late this month and going into July. The 30-foot-long tube holds an electromagnetic instrument that the U.S. Geological Survey uses…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation is making his appellate argument that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned. Oral arguments in…
(AP) BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO ), the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, today announced it has made a $200,000 donation to Miranda Lambert’s MuttNation Foundation, the nonprofit organization she co-founded with her mother,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee State Library and Archives is holding a one-day public display of the state's three original constitutions to celebrate 225 years of statehood. On June 1, the constitutions that were written in 1796 and revised…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Photos taken by a Mississippi River kayaker about five years before a crack was found in the Interstate 40 bridge linking Tennessee and Arkansas appear to show the fracture that led transportation officials to close the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Morgan Wallen will be eligible for multiple awards at this year's CMA Awards, but not the show's top prize. The decision continues the fallout for one of the genre's biggest stars who apologized after…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Tennessee man who told police he had been smoking marijuana because he was upset NBA star Kobe Bryant had died has been charged with killing two Mississippi residents in a car crash. Shelby…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge says “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson must stand trial on three counts of rape. The Los Angeles County Superior Court judge made the determination Friday in the fourth day of a preliminary hearing…
U.S. (AP) -- Standardized tests are returning to the nation’s schools, but with lower stakes and an option to opt out for many families. States are adopting a patchwork of testing plans after the Biden administration offered new flexibility during…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a former nurse at a Tennessee high school who had more than 700 illicit images of juveniles has been charged in federal court with attempted production of child pornography. Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas have announced a cease-fire to end a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip and brought life in much of Israel to a standstill. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced…
STANFORD, Ky. (AP) — A Tennessee father has been charged with murder, neglect and abuse in the blunt force trauma death of his 2-week-old daughter. Nashville Police say 25-year-old Jonathon Lemons was taken into custody at a Kentucky hospital where…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a bill to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation that bans gender-confirming treatment for young minors over objections that the series of bills unfairly discriminate an already vulnerable population. The move makes Tennessee just the second state in…
The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline has confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. That's according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Colonial Pipeline’s CEO Joseph Blount…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee will become the first state in the United States to require businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms, locker rooms or changing…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will take up Mississippi’s bid to enforce a 15-week ban on the procedure. The court’s order Monday sets up a showdown over…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Republican governor has signed legislation putting public schools and districts at risk of losing civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multi-person bathrooms that do not reflect their gender at birth. Gov.…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An inspector who failed to discover a crack in the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee that prompted the span's closure has been fired. The Arkansas Department of Transportation on Monday said the inspector…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Kentucky woman was struck and killed on a Tennessee interstate after exiting her car. Nashville police said the car 28-year-old Jazmin Swain was traveling in was stopped on Interstate 40 after striking the center dividing…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty is calling on President Joe Biden to take an “urgent, all-hands” approach to the shutdown of a bridge that connects Tennessee and Arkansas. The Republican says in a letter to the president…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scientists have found that sharks use the Earth’s magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world’s oceans. Researchers say their marine laboratory experiments with a…
